Otto Müller (novelist)

Otto Müller
Born	(1816-06-01)June 1, 1816 Schotten, Hesse-Darmstadt
Died	August 6, 1894(1894-08-06) (aged 78) Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	German

Otto Müller (June 1, 1816 – August 6, 1894) was a German novelist.

Biography

Müller was born at Schotten, Hesse-Darmstadt. He began his career as a librarian at the court library at Darmstadt and edited newspapers at Frankfurt and Mannheim. In 1854 he established the Frankfurter Museum. In 1856, he settled in Stuttgart, where he died nearly forty years later, aged 78.

Works

His Ausgewählte Schriften (Selected Writings) appeared in Stuttgart in 1874 (12 vols.).

Fiction

He early published a series of novels. In 1845, appeared Bürger, ein deutsches Dichterleben, a novel. After that, he published Georg Völker. Ein Roman aus dem Jahre 1848 (a novel from the year 1848) and other political novels. Subsequent novels are:

• Charlotte Ackermann (1854)
• Der Stadtschultheiss von Frankfurt (1856; 3d ed. 1878), treating of Goethe's grandparents
• Der Klosterhof (1859)
• Aus Petrarca's alten Tagen (1862)
• Erzählungen und Charakterbilder (1865)
• Der Wildpfarrer (1866)
• Der Professor von Heidelberg (1870)
• Der Fall von Konstanz (1872)
• Der Majoratsherr (1873)
• Schatten auf Höhen (1881)

References

• Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). "Müller, Otto" . The American Cyclopædia.
• Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Müller, Otto" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.